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Additional Notes |
IRTP Policy Status Report
- Staff to send note to Councilors to encourage their respective groups to provide input to the public comment forum, if applicable.
Council Liaisons
- Staff to follow up on Council liaisons, remind Council of the open appointments and ensure roles are filled.
IFR team
- Council to consider selection process by which a GNSO appointed member of the IANA Function Review (IFR) team will be selected to serve as the GNSO co-chair on the IFR as the ICANN Bylaws stipulate that “(d) The IFRT shall be led by two co-chairs: one appointed by the GNSO from one of the members appointed pursuant to clauses (c)-(f) of Section 18.7 and one appointed by the ccNSO from one of the members appointed pursuant to clauses (a)-(b) of Section 18.7”.
- Council to consider how best to coordinate co-chair selection with ccNSO, which will be responsible for selecting the ccNSO co-chair.
PDP 3.0
- Council leadership to work with ICANN staff to work on the roll out of an Implementation Plan based on the GNSO PDP 3.0 Final Report and Recommendations, prior to the Strategic Planning Session at the latest.
- Council leadership/staff to report on a quarterly basis on the status of implementation.
- Staff to add PDP3.0 to the Project List
Fellowship Program Selection Committee
- Council leadership to propose to Council approach to select permanent GNSO member to Fellowship Program Selection Committee and communicate intentions to Heather Forrest, the current interim member to that committee.
Updated Charter for the Cross Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance
- GNSO Council to seek clarification about the level of resources expected to be allocated to the Cross Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance.
- GNSO Council Liaison to the ccNSO to coordinate with the Country Codes Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) as the Cross Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance seeks to resolve concerns identified by the ccNSO Council.
- GNSO Council to determine if it will serve as a Chartering Organization, if the Cross Community Engagement Group mechanism supports Chartering Organizations.
- Council leadership to propose Council position and next steps for GNSO relationship with the Cross Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance
Drafting Team on charter related to the next steps for the ICANN Procedure of Handling Whois conflicts with Privacy
- GNSO Council, after having considered the 1 August letter from Akram Atallah and receiving a brief update from GDD on its 24 August Council meeting, should determine next steps for reviewing the Whois Procedure.
- Drafting team members to share draft charter and identified questions in charter with respective SG/Cs for feedback, following which the drafting team will review this input and finalize the charter for GNSO Council consideration.
- Council to consider adoption of charter at its upcoming meeting
- Call for volunteers to be delayed at least until the EPDP hits the milestone of publishing its Initial Report. Council to discuss this topic once that milestone is hit.
- ICANN Staff to circulate a call for volunteers (subsequent to the initiation and chartering process for the EPDP on the Temporary Specification) to the GNSO Stakeholder Groups, with the request for each Stakeholder Group to appoint up to 3 members to the Implementation Advisory Group (IAG). The call for volunteers should also be more widely circulated to seek volunteers to serve as participants and observers to the IAG.
- Council Leadership to consider when to launch call for volunteers for the WHOIS Procedure Implementation Advisory Group (e.g., with publication of EPDP Final Report)
ICANN Reserve Fund
- Council leadership to initiate discussion on mailing list
GNSO Response to GAC Communique
- Small Drafting Team to seek to finalize GNSO response to the GAC Communique, to seek to take into RySG concerns. Council leadership to subsequently determine best way to approve (e.g., intersessional vote or during December meeting), taking into account the end of January date for the next ICANN Board meeting, during which the Board is expected to consider adoption of its scorecard on the GAC Advice.
Strategic Planning Session
- Council members to make travel arrangements for Strategic Planning Session (notice should have been received from Constituency Travel - in case of questions, please contact gnso-secs@icann.org)
- Council leadership and ICANN staff to work on first draft of the agenda for Council review
- Council leadership and ICANN staff to prepare a set of resources (e.g., opening remarks from Cherine, blog posts) to facilitate preparation for SPS and provide to Council for their review.
IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms
- Susan Kawaguchi to collaborate with the PDP WG and staff to develop a draft final report for preliminary consideration by the GNSO Council (targeting May meeting).
- Susan Kawaguchi and Heather Forrest to prepare report on the usage of the 3.7 Appeal Process contained in the GNSO Operating Procedure that is intended to capture the process used and lessons learned.
- ICANN staff to inform the IGO-INGO CRP PDP WG that the GNSO Council resolved that the Working Group, in line with the Council’s priority to ensure responsible allocation of resources and timely management of the PDP, the Final Report be submitted in time to meet the July 2018 GNSO Council meeting document deadline.
- Councilors to review Final Report, especially in the broader context of the appropriate overall scope of protection for all IGO identifiers, in preparation for consideration as early as the August Council meeting.
- ICANN staff to inform the ICANN Board and the GAC that the IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Mechanisms PDP Working Group has completed its work and forward a copy of the Final Report to them
- Councilors to review Final Report and options flowchart, then prepare a list of questions by 31 August 2018 that they have, for response by the WG leadership, WG liaison, WG members, or staff as appropriate.
- ICANN staff to work with the GNSO Chair and Council liaison to determine possible ways to address concerns regarding some of the PDP recommendations within the scope of the PDP Manual, in light of the fact that the WG has not identified any recommendations as being interdependent.
- Next steps for the IGO-INGO Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms PDP WG Final Report - ICANN staff to schedule webinar for questions and answers
- Council leadership/staff to develop a summary document to capture concerns and issues with the PDP, as well as next step options available to the Council
- Council leadership to again present Council options for the IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Final Report to consider and discuss with their respective SG/Cs.
Consensus Policy Implementation Framework
- Councilors to review proposed amendments to the Consensus Policy Implementation Framework (CPIF) and if desired, disseminate to their respective Stakeholder Groups/Constituencies. The goal is to ensure feedback is returned to ICANN org in a timely manner and allow for them to provide a proposed final version by the end of July.
- Councilors to review Post Implementation Consensus Policy Review Framework (PICPRF) process diagram and complete survey by 18 May (see https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/postimplreview).
- ICANN staff to provide Consensus Policy Implementation Framework (CPIF) updates and related slides to the Council list.
- Council to determine by 31 July 2018 whether the proposed updates are acceptable or determine if something further is needed (e.g., webinar)
- GDD Staff to review feedback received and share updated CPIF with Council
- Council to review updated CPIF (on November Council meeting)
GNSO Empowered Community Roles & Responsibilities
- Noting that the previous drafting team is disbanded, ICANN staff to conduct a new call for volunteers, which could include Councilors and appointees from SG/Cs (and former members).
- ICANN staff to send to the GNSO Council the link to Google Drive folder, which contains current working drafts.
GNSO Rep to EC admin
- GNSO Secretariat to communicate to the ICANN Secretary that Keith Drazek, GNSO Chair, will represent the GNSO as the Decisional Participant on the Empowered Community Administration